By Stuart H. Smith
The last decade -- ever since it became clear in the mid-2000s that conventional oil fields around the planet were running low -- has been the era of "extreme oil." Big Oil promised the world that the wonder of new technologies -- most notably hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, as...

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The city council of Bonita Springs, Florida, voted unanimously Wednesday to prohibit the controversial petroleum extraction technique, according to attendees.
Bonita Springs is the second Florida city to enact a fracking ban, local reporter Patrick Riley said.
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“Crude Justice is a hugely satisfying legal thriller in which Big Oil suffers a well-deserved fall at the hands of bright, underfunded young lawyers and their small businessmen employers. At the same time, it is an alarming close-up view of an industry that routinely distorts or hides any evidence against it.” —John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil